Spring 2012 - University of California Press

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Sarah Schulman
The Gentrification
of the Mind
Witness to a Lost Imagination
In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years
(1981–1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how
much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap
rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement
vanished almost overnight to be
replaced by gay conservative spokespeople
and mainstream consumerism. Schulman
takes us back to her Lower East Side and
brings it to life, filling these pages with
vivid memories of her avant-garde queer
friends and dramatically recreating the
early years of the AIDS crisis as experienced
by a political insider. Interweaving
personal reminiscence with cogent analysis,
Schulman details her experience as a
witness to the loss of a generation’s imagination
and the consequences of that loss.
Sarah Schulman, Professor of English at CUNY,
Staten Island, is the author of ten novels, three
books of nonfiction, and a play.
FEBRUARY
184 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”
US History/Urban Studies/Sociology
World
cloth 978-0-520-26477-9 $27.95sc/£19.95
David Healy
Pharmageddon
This searing indictment, David Healy’s
most comprehensive and forceful argument
against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine,
tackles problems in health care that
are leading to a growing number of deaths
and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to
draw attention to the now well-publicized
suicide-inducing side effects of many antidepressants,
attributes our current state of
affairs to three key factors: product rather
than process patents on drugs, the classification
of certain drugs as prescription-only,
and industry-controlled drug trials. These
developments have tied the survival of
pharmaceutical companies to the development
of blockbuster drugs, so that they
must overhype benefits and deny real hazards.
Healy further explains why these
trends have basically ended the possibility
of universal health care in the United
States and elsewhere around the world. He
concludes with suggestions for reform of
our currently corrupted evidence-based
medical system.
David Healy is Professor of Psychiatry at Cardiff
University in Britain and a former Secretary of the
British Association for Psychopharmacology. He
is the author of many books including Let Them
Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between
the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression, The
Antidepressant Era, and Mania: A Short History of
Bipolar Disorder.
MARCH
328 pages, 6 x 9”
Health Care/Medicine/Public Policy
US & Territories, Canada
cloth 978-0-520-27098-5 $39.95sc
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